Outside In, rewriting homelessness?

Our blog from 2019.

Our call to action has been co-opted by local for profit company Oi.

This blog has been a long time coming. Our ‘SHOW SOME LOVE RADIO’ podcast will be coming soon too. We’ve been pretty busy!

Recently though the universe has conspired, or rather booted us in the hole to finally take action and to use our voices here as another medium for our activism and opinions. The irony of that is that this first article will not contain our opinions, only a brief highlight of our interactions to date.

Most importantly this blog is all about our questions for Outside In.

Outside In/Oi are a local for-profit company that purports to have an aim to “rewrite homelessness” by selling ‘streetwear’ (£16-£45) exclusively branded and marketed around the topic of homelessness, more specifically rough-sleeping. Included in the ticket price, is the cost of a beanie or blanket (not offered for sale to the public) to give to a rough-sleeper, using their giving guidelines.

The two of us have been discussing this subject for a year, 6 months ago we decided to stop talking about it, and be open with, and fair to them by giving them the opportunity to tell us directly about their model and future plans (see our exact questions below), with a view to potentially working together to help people in Belfast City and beyond.

Our first email.